Friday, January 24, 2014

NYTIMES OP-ED: POPE SHOULD ALLOW ABORTION

.... These limitations, I suggest, correspond to the “very difficult
situations” (such as “rape” and “extreme poverty”) in which the pope, in
“Evangelii Gaudium,” admitted the church has “done little to adequately
accompany women.”

Allowing for exceptions to the moral condemnation
of abortion in some of these painful situations would not contradict the
pope’s overall commitment to the “value of the human person.” Rather, it
would admit what reason shows: There are morally difficult issues about
abortion that should be decided by conscience, not legislation.

The result
would be a church acting according to the pope’s own stated standard:
preaching not “certain doctrinal or moral points based on specific
ideological options” but rather the gospel of love.

Gary Gutting is a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre
Dame, and an editor of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. He is the
author of, most recently, “Thinking the Impossible: French Philosophy
Since 1960″ and writes regularly for The Stone.
The Stone, _featured, Abortion, Ethics (Personal), Roman Catholic Church

MAYBE GUTTING AND THE NYTIMES WOULD LIKE TO ALSO RECOMMEND THAT THE RC CHURCH ALLOW ADULTERY, MURDER AND DEVIL WORSHIP WHILE THEY'RE AT IT?

SHEESH.

IN THE POSTMODERN LEFTIST UNIVERSE, NOTHING IS OUTLAWED AND EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED - (EXCEPT BIRTH FOR A FETUS AND KEEPING THE FRUITS OF YOUR LABOR).

IN A WORLD WHERE MORALITY IS RELATIVE, MORALITY IS ABSENT.

AS THE WISE MAN ONCE SAID:

"ONE MAN'S RIGHT TO SWING HIS ARMS ENDS WHERE THE NEXT MAN'S NOSE BEGINS."